A 55 commute is almost exactly the distance I have to travel tomorrow from the south of Birmingham (Birmingham is the second city in England and surprisingly is not in London, to Northamptonshire which is equidistant to London and Birmingham (this does not mean Northamptonshire is in the middle of London, however).
This is the time length of my commute. I happen to work in Northern Virginia, and traffic here is a nightmare. The same trip on those rare occasions with no traffic takes roughly an hour and fifteen minutes. It would be even less in other areas of the country.
In the UK we whine and bitch about travelling 5 miles to work or travelling 200 miles for a holiday (vacation). It sounds pathetic but there are very few straight roads (the remaining ones were largely built by the Romans) so forward progress is slow.
Complaining about 5 miles? Hell, my commute is 55 miles in each direction (Got a job in another part of the state, haven't moved just yet; can mostly work at home). I'd kill for a 5 mile commute!
While this makes sense, it wasn't at all in place when I had detention. I was held for the unholy offense of not calling my teacher "ma'am." This was in the early 2000s in Alabama in the public school system.
The high school I graduated from had no payphones and the office was closed after hours. If you got into a situation in which you couldn't get to the office in time, you would have been out of luck without a cell phone.
If Windows 8 turns out to be a good OS on tablets, I would predict in a very short amount of time, laptops will start to ship w/ touch-screen interfaces to take advantage of the Windows 8 shell.
It may spawn touch-screen laptops, but they won't be well received or used for very long save for some specific niches. Why? Gorilla arm syndrome. Holding your arm in front of you to touch a screen for long periods of time just wears it out. It'll suck quite a bit. Using it for maybe one or two things might be OK, but using it over and over will be a chore that will rapidly be painful.
TL;DR unless Microsoft ships a new human arm, I don't expect touchscreen laptops to take over the general laptop market.
As for the rest, some of the stuff isn't just a service pack away. For example, they're supposedly integrating a new and improved version of Hyper-V in at least some desktop versions of Windows 8. There's also rumors of per application virtualization. I don't think either of those would be simply bolted on in a service pack.
JavaScript is a part of the AJAX pattern. It isn't AJAX. In either case, the JavaScript here doesn't have to make any web request; it just switches out an iframe, and can be fully synchronous.
Asynchronous because the js call happens after the page has already beeen loaded and XML (ie XHTML) is what is returned from the call. Or rather, returned and inserted, if you want to be pedantic (which you obviously do.)
Loading it after the page does does not make it asynchronous. Clicking on their brand new like button could trigger a fully synchronous web request, blocking the UI until it returns. That's likely not what they did (no one wants a blocked UI), but there's no law of nature saying that loading something later has to be asynchronous.
I live within 30 minutes or so from the epicenter, and here it was kind of scary. No damage, but damn were the floors and walls shaking! I thought it had to be a tornado at first with all the noise.
As someone who lives in the area, I'm not too happy about that. Hopefully if it were to be busted I'll be far enough away from it for it not to matter.
I have heard from developers who put out their products for both platforms that WebOS still made more money than WP7. This is anecdotal evidence from a small handful of developers, but still.
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Actually, many Okinawans do not want the US there; ~40% or so in most polls want a complete US withdrawal. An additional ~40% or so want a reduction in troop levels. Most of this opposition comes from rapes (especially the '95 rape of the 12 year old girl; that was a major shitstorm that catalyzed a lot of negative feeling).
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True, but it's smack dab in the middle of an urban area from what I remember (and I'm sure it's only gotten more crowded since we left ~a decade ago), so for that area, lawns are unheard of.
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I hate to reply to myself, but doing some reading confirmed what I thought: Okinawa (the island itself) is 18% occupied by US military installations, with roughly 2/3 of all US forces in Japan deployed to the prefecture. The island has ~1.4 million people living on it.
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I think giving up military bases could be a profitable adventure. I used to live in Kadena AFB in Japan (I was a military brat), and the bases take up like 10-20% of the island we were on IIRC. Lawns are unheard of off base, but yet many of us were housed in small homes with lawns. I'm willing to bet Japanese investors would go crazy over that land (so long as the US military hasn't massively polluted it; that's been known to happen).
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It wasn't just Reagan's way; plenty of presidents have engaged in that behavior, and Clinton himself did in his first term from what I remember. I think what helped Clinton was the tech bubble was going on at the same time, making his years look prosperous (even though they were built on rotting driftwood towards the end).
I don't think you need really high gas taxes (unless they don't cover the costs of the roads); those will kill the American economy quickly (especially if they are enacted overnight) and quickly kill any political career (thus making them not likely to be enacted). Gas prices are going to rise, so long as there are no subsidies, and so people driving gas guzzlers is a problem that will solve itself eventually.
I myself drive a gas guzzler I inherited because I can't currently afford to replace it; buying a new car will save me long term (and I will do it) but I don't have the cash on hand or job security (I just got a new job) to go out and replace it. High gas taxes enacted today would delay being able to replace my gas guzzler. It would increase the benefit of switching, but for those that can't afford to switch it's a punishment.
I mean really. Was there ever anyone who actually thought that 25mpg was really the best a small sedan could muster?
No, probably not. But this isn't a mandate for small sedans to get 50+ MPG; it's a mandate for the vehicle fleet to have an average MPG of 50+ MPG. Depending on how "vehicle fleet" is defined, that could be more challenging. IIRC there's a specific exemption for pickup trucks, I don't know about SUVs.
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A 55 commute is almost exactly the distance I have to travel tomorrow from the south of Birmingham (Birmingham is the second city in England and surprisingly is not in London, to Northamptonshire which is equidistant to London and Birmingham (this does not mean Northamptonshire is in the middle of London, however).
This is the time length of my commute. I happen to work in Northern Virginia, and traffic here is a nightmare. The same trip on those rare occasions with no traffic takes roughly an hour and fifteen minutes. It would be even less in other areas of the country.
In the UK we whine and bitch about travelling 5 miles to work or travelling 200 miles for a holiday (vacation). It sounds pathetic but there are very few straight roads (the remaining ones were largely built by the Romans) so forward progress is slow.
Complaining about 5 miles? Hell, my commute is 55 miles in each direction (Got a job in another part of the state, haven't moved just yet; can mostly work at home). I'd kill for a 5 mile commute!
While this makes sense, it wasn't at all in place when I had detention. I was held for the unholy offense of not calling my teacher "ma'am." This was in the early 2000s in Alabama in the public school system.
The high school I graduated from had no payphones and the office was closed after hours. If you got into a situation in which you couldn't get to the office in time, you would have been out of luck without a cell phone.
I don't know about Server 2008, but Server 2008 R2 core has powershell installed.
The reserve requirement is still 10% (and 0% for certain kinds of accounts). I do not believe it has changed (though I may be mistaken).
2% growth is stalling, if you consider annual inflation rates.
If Windows 8 turns out to be a good OS on tablets, I would predict in a very short amount of time, laptops will start to ship w/ touch-screen interfaces to take advantage of the Windows 8 shell.
It may spawn touch-screen laptops, but they won't be well received or used for very long save for some specific niches. Why? Gorilla arm syndrome. Holding your arm in front of you to touch a screen for long periods of time just wears it out. It'll suck quite a bit. Using it for maybe one or two things might be OK, but using it over and over will be a chore that will rapidly be painful.
TL;DR unless Microsoft ships a new human arm, I don't expect touchscreen laptops to take over the general laptop market.
As for the rest, some of the stuff isn't just a service pack away. For example, they're supposedly integrating a new and improved version of Hyper-V in at least some desktop versions of Windows 8. There's also rumors of per application virtualization. I don't think either of those would be simply bolted on in a service pack.
Behind the back it does, but it doesn't exclusively mean that in general.
JavaScript is a part of the AJAX pattern. It isn't AJAX. In either case, the JavaScript here doesn't have to make any web request; it just switches out an iframe, and can be fully synchronous.
You are wrong:
AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript And XML
Asynchronous because the js call happens after the page has already beeen loaded and XML (ie XHTML) is what is returned from the call. Or rather, returned and inserted, if you want to be pedantic (which you obviously do.)
Loading it after the page does does not make it asynchronous. Clicking on their brand new like button could trigger a fully synchronous web request, blocking the UI until it returns. That's likely not what they did (no one wants a blocked UI), but there's no law of nature saying that loading something later has to be asynchronous.
So it's where the Pirate Bay stores its torrents?
The Spanish word for vagina is, you guessed it, vagina. That's no help here
Nitpick: When you go to a theater, you're paying for the service of displaying the movie, not the movie itself.
I live within 30 minutes or so from the epicenter, and here it was kind of scary. No damage, but damn were the floors and walls shaking! I thought it had to be a tornado at first with all the noise.
As someone who lives in the area, I'm not too happy about that. Hopefully if it were to be busted I'll be far enough away from it for it not to matter.
I have heard from developers who put out their products for both platforms that WebOS still made more money than WP7. This is anecdotal evidence from a small handful of developers, but still.
Actually, many Okinawans do not want the US there; ~40% or so in most polls want a complete US withdrawal. An additional ~40% or so want a reduction in troop levels. Most of this opposition comes from rapes (especially the '95 rape of the 12 year old girl; that was a major shitstorm that catalyzed a lot of negative feeling).
True, but it's smack dab in the middle of an urban area from what I remember (and I'm sure it's only gotten more crowded since we left ~a decade ago), so for that area, lawns are unheard of.
I hate to reply to myself, but doing some reading confirmed what I thought: Okinawa (the island itself) is 18% occupied by US military installations, with roughly 2/3 of all US forces in Japan deployed to the prefecture. The island has ~1.4 million people living on it.
I think giving up military bases could be a profitable adventure. I used to live in Kadena AFB in Japan (I was a military brat), and the bases take up like 10-20% of the island we were on IIRC. Lawns are unheard of off base, but yet many of us were housed in small homes with lawns. I'm willing to bet Japanese investors would go crazy over that land (so long as the US military hasn't massively polluted it; that's been known to happen).
It wasn't just Reagan's way; plenty of presidents have engaged in that behavior, and Clinton himself did in his first term from what I remember. I think what helped Clinton was the tech bubble was going on at the same time, making his years look prosperous (even though they were built on rotting driftwood towards the end).
I don't think you need really high gas taxes (unless they don't cover the costs of the roads); those will kill the American economy quickly (especially if they are enacted overnight) and quickly kill any political career (thus making them not likely to be enacted). Gas prices are going to rise, so long as there are no subsidies, and so people driving gas guzzlers is a problem that will solve itself eventually.
I myself drive a gas guzzler I inherited because I can't currently afford to replace it; buying a new car will save me long term (and I will do it) but I don't have the cash on hand or job security (I just got a new job) to go out and replace it. High gas taxes enacted today would delay being able to replace my gas guzzler. It would increase the benefit of switching, but for those that can't afford to switch it's a punishment.
SUVs are trucks to most people, but the law IIRC defines them otherwise in this case.
I mean really. Was there ever anyone who actually thought that 25mpg was really the best a small sedan could muster?
No, probably not. But this isn't a mandate for small sedans to get 50+ MPG; it's a mandate for the vehicle fleet to have an average MPG of 50+ MPG. Depending on how "vehicle fleet" is defined, that could be more challenging. IIRC there's a specific exemption for pickup trucks, I don't know about SUVs.